The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-23 00:00:00

PHUT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Another inundation, like a second deluge, of antießeform oratory, has bee n p oure d f ort h f rom t h e Tory sinks of Manchester and Salford, which, if not calculated to or.- vinct the reason of the British public, by the cogency of its i arguments, is peculiarly well adapted to overwh e l m t hei r sense of propriety with a feeling of indignation and disgust. The foetid bubblings of the apostate and imbecile Burdett, of the reckless and rabid Sinclair, and of the magnilequcnt Maidstone, are merely the offensive indications on the sur face which denote the existence of a foul and dangerous combination unnerneath. These Tory pioneers are merely sent out to ascertain the state and tendency of public feeling, in order to afford a cue to the course and con duct of the more influential of their party; and in ac cordance t o th e reception given to their gaseous eructations will be regulated the extent of opposition which will be given to the forthcoming measures of Reform. The itinerant Tory agitators are all men of second or third-rate importance, whose triumph or repulse is in itself of very little consequence ; but their peregrination, if' suc cessful, or rather if by any contingency its aspect should be coloured by a favourable hue, will be cited as an evi dence of what has been so long called re-action ; and if, on the contrary, this dining and devouring excursion should prove, as it h as p rove d , a f a i lure, the result may be attri buted to the mean and contemptuous opinion entertained towards the more prominent performers. The expedition of Burdett, Sinclair, and Co., may therefore be regarded as a mere experiment to ascertain the state of public opi nion in regard to Toryism, without committing the more influential of the party to any specific line of policy. These inflated spouters are mere pilot balloons sent up to ascertain the current of the wind ; and we trust the result of their course will afford no encosragement to the wild flights which Toryism meditates against the welfare and liberty of the community.—Morning Adverat'er. The extraordinary decisione of the Hull Election Com mittee, to which we have several times called the atten tion of our readers, wail not soon be forgotten ; and the last man from whose memory they can pass away will as suredly be Sir George Strickland, the Chairman of the Committee. That enlightened and high principled Baronet Is believed to have decided, by exercising his right to a double vote, that an elector receiving a glass of ale and a sandwich was guilty of bribery 1 And he is known, on several occasions, to have given his casting vote in favour of branding a man with the crime of bribery upon grounds quite as frivolous. Far be it from us to say or to insinuate that this worthy Baronet, albeit " York," has not been led into these absurdities by want of judgment, and not by want of honesty. It is indeed true, that at Si r G eorge Strickland' s l a t e e l ect i on for the Riding, which we hope he does not represent, jive shilling tickets were given to the voters in his interest, by the Chairman of his District Committees ; and it is not a little singular that a gentleman who thought ss. worth of refreshments a proper quantity for his own voters, should consider that a glass of ale and a sandwich given to a voter at Hull constituted bribery. We can produce, however, a still more remarkable illustra tion of the curious distinction which Sir George Strickland makes between what constitutes bribery in a town, and what does not constitute bribery in a county—between acts which arc criminal when committed by the candidates for Hull, and which are innocent when committed by himself and Lord Morpeth in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Among the many startling decisions of the Hull Committee to which we have called the attention of the public, and to which the attention of the House of Commons will be still more pointedly directed at an early period, was that to which they came in the case of George Goold, whom the petitioners proposed to strike off the poll on the ground that he had re ceived a bribe for his vote. The circumstances, as they ap peared in evidence, and as they were detailed by us at the time, were shortly these :—The voter was living at Pocklington, 30 miles from Hull, at the time of the elec tion. He was at week there as a carrier. He came to Hull on Saturday (the election taking place on the fol lowing Mondsy), and left on Tuesday morning. He had been absent from his work, therefore, for three days ; he had ineurred the expense of bed and board in an election town for four days ; and he had paid the charge of his conveyance to and from Hull, for a distance each way of thirty miles. It appeared that on the Tuesday morning, about 11 o'clock, previous to quitting Hull, he went, ac companied by a friend (not a voter), to the Blue or Con servative Committee-room. On the evidence of this friend the case rested exclusively. According to his testimony, two or three gentlemen were in the room at the time, who were engaged in settling the accounts of the election. The voter stated to them that he came about his expenses. He was asked what they amounted to, and answerrd, " Two pounds;' This sum, though not till after some demur, fWas eventually paid him, and the voter signed a receipt ir it. 'What was the decision of the Committee in this case ? Why, the Committee decided that George Goold was bribed --because he had his expenses paid for him, which every lawyers' clerk knows to be perfectly legal, and which even a Poor Law Commissioner would admit not to be too highly paid at the sum of 21.—for Goold was to he reim bursed for sixty miles' travelling, for four days' bed and board, in an election town, where everything is charged at an extravagant rate, and for three days' loss of work. It was understood, as we mentioned at the time this monstrous decision was given by the Hull Committee, that the casting vote of the Chairman, Sir George Strickland, carried it. If this be true, and we never heard it denied, what will the reader think of Sir Casting -vote Strickland, after perusing the following circular letter, which his own Committee ad dressed to the freeholders of the West Riding : " Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland's Committee -room, Doncaster, July 31, 1837. " Sir,—l am directed by the Committee for promoting the re-election of Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland, Bart., for the West Riding of Yorkshire, very respectfully, yet earnestly, to solicit your attendance here on Thursday next, to vote in favour of those gentlemen ; and I am directed further to inform you, that the Committee will reimburse you the ex penses of coming to and returning from the election. You will be pleased to apply at the Committee -room on your arrival. " I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, T• B. MASON S. " The e l ect i on takes place" on . Thursday and , Friday ecretar nex y t." We ask the reader's opinion, but we abstain from giving our own, because we would rather remain at a loss for words than be driven to borrow them from Mr. O'Connell or Mr. Poulter.—Times. The State paper addressed by the King of' the Nether lands to his Chambers, which will be found in another column, is a most important document, and must be read with great attention. It does not add much new matter to the stock of information already in our hands, and commu nicated from time to time to the public, but it clears up and explains many points which may have been hitherto regarded as ambiguous, and makes known the sound and certain prin ciples which that staunch old Monarch relies on for the go vernment of his conduct. It proves that, notwithstanding he has been treated in the most unworthy manner by the Sovereigns of Europe, he has not forfeited his own respect, and that he still insists on his rights in a manner that must command their admiration. It teaches the King of Bel gium that Holland is not disposed to abate one iota of its rights, and that if the question be settled it must be on equitable grounds. What the result of the negotiations to which the King of Holland has again referred the matter may be we cannot pretend to anticipate. We can only say, that we consider the Dutch and Belgian question to be one of paramount importance, and more calculated that any other to disturb the peace of Europe. It is, indeed, preg• runt with danger, and it will behove the great Powers either to let the affair rest in its present position, or to com pel, should they deem it necessary to interfere, Belgium to accede to the Twenty-four Articles which have alreedy re ceived their sanction.—Mornin g Post. It is, notoriously, the intention of the Whig cabinet, to turn to usurious account, their present position relatively to the court. Despised, they feel themselves to be, as the most imbecile administrators of the functions of Govern ment who ever brought a great monarchy into danger —yet still they hope, that the contempt and disgust which attach to them as Ministers of the Crown, may be swallowed up in the eclat which they trust will attend them, as keepers of the royal person. Hence the scheme of parading the Queen, during the autumn, throughout Ireland and Scotland. The object of the Whigs is, if possible, to throw the responsibility of their knavery and folly, on any shoulders that will consent to hear it—whilst they content themselves with the pay and patronage of office. When their blundering Canada Bill was introduced into the House of Commons, Lord John Russell besought Sir Robert Peel to take half of the responsibility which would attach to approbation of that measure. When Lord Durham's mission was un d er di scuss i on, the responsibility of the appointment was in that manly and constitutional spirit for which Whigs are distinguished, laid by the Queen's advisers at the Queen's door. In like manner, do the Whigs desire to connect with the Queen's announced visit to Ireland, the responsibility of a direct approval by the Queen, of the Whig policy towards that portion of her dominions. Never, assuredly, was there exhibited official degradation so complete as the degradation of Lord Melbourne and his associates. They dare a long dare no t d e f en d h , time they their Iri s h policy on its own merits. tried to defend it, on the "round that it was in conformity te with " the w ants and wishes of the great body of the people. Th ey came i nto office, they " alleged, for no other purpose, th an t o g i ve e ff ec t t o a popular p olicy in re gard t o th e I r i sh church. Yet, mar k t h e seque l. They have sneakingly, rithiegishiy, abandoned that policy, which they describ e d as " ;titer to the best interests of the k ing i om and still th e y are not ashamed to remain in those offices, which they are now proved to have obtained on false pre tences. Having abandoned their " popular" policy to wards that unfortunat e country, over which Mr. O'Con nell's representative affects to act the viceroy, titor propose to procure toleration yet a little longer tar their system of Irish misgovernment, by pre.tendin - that it meets %vith the royal ar)probatiop. The queen's visit to Ireland point of fact, designed to serve the basest party ktii'pOses. it the last shift of the rickiitty, it-jay Melbourne cabinet : it is the last and the most perilous of those experiments which the Whigs have made, to render the Queen's persbnal po pularity available towards repressing the public disgust towards the Queen's responsible advisers !—Morning Herald. ACCELERATION OF THE MAIL The irre+u►arity in the arrival of our London mail still con tinues, owing to the contractors for horsing the mails from London to the station-house at Birmingham not doing their dut2, and the want of a proper arrangement with the Railway Companies. The correct time for arriving in this city is txvent:!-three minutes past nine o'clock, a. in. From the 27th ult. to the 6th init. there was a slight improvement, which we hailed as the presage of something grclter, the time of arrival during that period averaging from thirty-nine to fifty-four mi nutes past nine o'clock, A.M. On Monday, the 9th inst., it was forty-three minutespast ten o'clock, a m. ; and, from the information of a passenger, we find that this was occasioned by the late arrival of the mail-coaches from London at the station-house at Birmingham on Sunday morning, the Sth inst., by which the train was detained more than half an hour. The Carlisle end Manchester mails were latt st of corning up. I-knee the train did not move off till 317} minutes past seven by the Railway clock —proceeded to Warrington, and was there detained, as usual, 35 minutes. We were in hopes that more attention would have been paid to the memorial from the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Town-council of this city, to the Lords of her Majosty's Treasury, in which Newton was shown to be the proper point for the north mails to leave the railway—five minutes, in place of thirty-five, to be sufficient for shifting the mail-bags from the railway coaches to the mail coach—the station-house at Birmingham to be the proper place for breakfasting ; and more attention paid to the horsing of the mails from London to Birmingham, making their arrivals at the station-house not to exceed half-past six o'clock, A. IL, and a judicious arrange ment with the Directors of the Grand Junction Railway Com pany, and the London and Birmingham Railway Company ; these, and reducing the detention at Carlisle to twenty minutes, were the improvements sought for by this memorial, so far back as the 30th of January ; yet nothing has been done, and it would appear that nothing will be done, with out a simultaneous movement over the whole of Scotland, to demand her just rights. Therefore, let the words be, " AGI TATE, AGITATE, AGITATI !" The trade, manufactures, and agriculture of the country are sacrificed, for the want of re gular and speedy communication, which the state of the re venue for the last quarter clearly shows. Let us then be united and firm, in having all the improvements on mail con veyance called for ; and, in addition, the time bills from Lon don to Edinburgh, and Glasgow direct, from which all deten tions and their causes will appear, and thus render it unne cessary to derive information from passengers. When the mail is late it is always attributed to detention on the railway ; but in this instance we have traced the fault to the contractors for horsing the mail from London to Birmingham, and the unwarrantable detention at Warrington. In so far as the railway was concerned, they proceeded at an excellent steady pace from Birmingham to Warrington. The London and Bir mingham Railway was opened on the 9th instant ; now, there fore, is the time for a general movement for carrying our irn provements into effect, which would bring in our London mai before 5 o'clock, A. at., and afford proportional benefit to al other places north and west, whose mail bags come by that conveyance.— Caledonian Mercury. ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS CENTENARY FESTIVAL. The Annual Commemoration of the Royal Society of Musi cians would always be an event of unusual interest, because a musical treat of the highest order is provided. The announce ment of such a festival, on a very splendid scale, attracted no small attention, introducing as it did a most delightful novelty in our public dinners, which, from the success and eclat attend ing the experiment of Friday night at Freemasons' Hall, will, it is hoped, be often repeated. We allude to the presence of ladies at the festive table, from which, by some absurd custom, they, the fair portion of the creation, hare hitherto been ex cluded. Never did the Hall present a more beautiful appear ance than on this occasion, graced by the company of ele gantly-dressed women. There were six tables, and every al ternate seat had a " ladye fair," smiling and content in the consciousness that she was aiding one of the best-conducted societies in the metropolis, and contributing a mite to alleviate the sorrows of the descendants of those who had so often de lighted us in their hour of prosperity. The Noble Chairman for this year was Lord Burghersh. A better and more appropriate choice could not have been made. His Lordship takes a deep interest in the musical profession, and to him arc we indebted for the establishment of the Royal Academy, which has sent forth such eminent instrumentalists and vocalists. The Noble Chairman was supported on his right by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Richmond, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Sir John Campbell, Colonel Jones, &c. ; and on his left by Lady Burg hersh (Lady Patroness of the day), Hon. Mrs. Fane, Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir W. Clarke, Colonel Eyre, Culling C. Smith, Esq., Sir Robert Cell, &c. &c. Nearly four Hundred ladies and gentlemen, at half-past 5, sat down to dinner, although there was an opera at her Ma jesty's Theatre and a new opera at Drury Lane, which kept away many professionals. ' After a sumptuous dinner, the Noble CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " her Majesty the Queen," which, his Lordship said, was a toast he was sure the company would receive with an enthusiastic expression of loyalty and devotion. He had the pleasure to announce that her Majesty had sent a munifi cent donation to the society of 301. " God save the Queen," sung in chorus, accompanied by the band. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Queen Dowager, and other members of the Royal Family," and observed that he could not propose this toast without alluding to one member of that illustrious family, who honoured them with his com pany that day, his Royal Highness the Dake of Cambridge. After an elegant eulogium of the public and private virtues of his Royal Highness, the Noble Lord announced that the Duke of Cambridge had that day contributed to the funds of the institution a donation of 201., in addition to his annual subscription, and that his Royal Highness had given him permission to say that he would preside at the next anniversary festival of the society. —(Cheering.) The health of her Majesty the Queen Dowager was sure to meet with a cordial welcome from them, for her Majesty had always been a zea lous friend of the society, and he had the satisfaction to inform them that her Majesty had that day sent her annual donation of 101. The toast was drank with great enthusiasm. Tle applause was reiterated, when The Duke of CAMBRIDGE rose. It was now twenty-five years since he bad become a member of this society ; but it had happened, unfortunately, that this was the first of their festivals which he had been able to attend, having for twenty three years been absent from England at the time when they were held. Nothing could afford him greater pleasure than to take the chair at their festival next year, and to witness then, as now, the continued and increasing prosperity of so useful and meritorious an institution.—(Loud cheers.) The glee of " The rose of the valley," the melody by the late Mr. W. Reeve harmonised by Mr. W. Knyvett, was well sung by Mrs. W. Knyvett, Messrs. Sale, Vaughan, and W. Knyvett. " The Army and Navy" and " The President and Vice- President of the Society" were the next toasts. The two fine marches composed expressly for the society by Haydn and Winter were finely played, and Bishop's charming, glee, " Blow gentle gales," as charmingly sung by Mrs. Bishop, Miss M. B. Hawes, Messrs. Hawkins, Elliott, and Bellamy, was rapturously encored. The CIT;IRMAN proposed the toast of " The Ladies who have honoured the festival with their presence." Mr. Horsley's elegant glee of " Wake now, my love," was then well sung by Mrs. Knyvett, Miss Hawes, Messrs. Sale, Terrail, and. Vaughan; after which Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Blagrove performed Benedict and De Beriot's concertante duet on themes from La Sonnambula, in a style which drew down unqualified approbation. Mr. floaseEv, in proposing the toast of " The Noble Pre sident of the day," took occasion to congratulate the society upon its progressive prosperity, to which the Noble Lord had so largely contributed by his munificence and his exertions. The Noble CHAIRMAN returned thanks. A Centennial Ode, written expressly for the occasion, the words by T. Dibdi n , E 3q ., an d t h e mus i c b y T . Rovedino, was then sung. After the dessert had been served, the second part consisted ' of T. Cooke's cantata, " The Shades of the Heroes," and Bishop's exquisite round of " When the wind blows," which alone would stamp his fame. The toasts were--" The Royal Society of Musicians ;" Prosperity to the new Musical and Choral Funds," and " the various officers of the Institution." Mr. HORSLEY proposed, and Lord BURGHERSII seconded, in neat speeches, " The health of Mr. Parry, whose exertions have been so indefatigable and unremitting for the Society." Mr. PARRY returned thanks. The enthusiasm of the meeting was not confined to outward demonstrations. The donations and subscriptions were un usually liberal ; amongst which was her Majesty, 30/ ; the Queen Dowager, 101 ; the Duke of Cambridge, 201. ; Sir R. Gell, 10 guineas ; Lord Burghersh, 5 guineas, &c. ; besides a list of annual subscribers. The gifts of the profes sionals were also generous. The house of Broadwood again for 501. ; Collard, 50 guineas; Addison and Beale, la 10s ; Thalberg, 101. 10s. ; Mrs. Anderson, 51. ss. ; the Proprietor of thu Hanover-square-rooms, Si. 55., &c. &c. The company separated after a most delightful entertainment. The Quotidienne gives an extract from a letter from the Prior of the Hospice on the Simplon, which men tions that at the beginning of March the road was buried under an enormous mass of snow, which had rendered the mountain impassable for upwards of a week, but that the tem perature was very mild for the season, since, at the elevation of 6,200 feet the thermometer had never been more than 44 degrees below zero of Reaumer (the zero point of Fahren heit's scale). To the above the Quotidienne adds a letter of the 20th ult., from the Prior of the Great St. Bernard, from which we take the following We have had a most rigor ous winter. Five travellers have perished on our mountain. We have found three, but the two others remain covered by an avalanche. We have a great quantity of snow. Instead of ascending twelve steps in order to enter our house, we have to descend almost as many. We have not, however, had a pro portionate intensity of cold. Although our convent is the most elevated spot in Europe, being 7,600 feet above the level of the sea, the thermometer has never been lower than Hi degrees below zero of Reaumur (about 6 of Fahrenheit)." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 23, I S3B. LAW INTELIGENCt. VICE-CTIANCtij:OI . I' Al CO U T, Aißri 2I . CRADQCR AND OTHERS. SOCIETY FOE THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL SteistzeLlaitnis BALD- , - - . In this 68Se, ii4lii.! l , - , Was tioi cOncluded on Slc4rf./.::," when *e went to iireSS, the VICE-C,laNtELLoti Said the plain 3cn4e and justice of the case requiriti4 - it, take an order for the re ference. The rest of the motion was refused: NAVA L INTELLIGENCE (From the ileimpsitire TelcgrapA.) PORTSMOUTII, SATURDAY, APRIL 21.—The Pluto steamer proceeded ye;tcday to Woolwich ; she is to be attached to t t jle 14 4 eSsenger unserViceatne. Mr. King, of the Nlessenger, is to be transferred to the Pluto. The Modeste An 4 11 1 4 loops-oc-war, with the Pantaicori bri:, I'oA:timed this afternoon from a trial cruize in the Channel. We arc favoured with the following from the Modeste, relative to one day's trial We started at 1.30. on starboard tact, under double-reitfed topsails, courses, jib, and driver; wind N. N. W., Lily E., half a cable's length, and Pantaloon N.E. by E., quarter of a mile; at 5.50. shortened sail per signal, trial being ever, at which time Lily bore E. by N. three and a half miles, Pantaloon E. N. E., three miles. Had we tacked, ws , should have weatht red Lily- by at least one mile and three quarters, and fetched just ahead of the Pantaloon. Whether from prudence or necessity, is not known, but Pantaloon and Lily both took the main-sail off during the squalls, while we carried ours easily. Oae disadvantage we laboured under was carrying away jib stay, and (from its being new rope) having also to set it up twice, thereby keeping many men forward in the eyes of her and on the jib-boom, much to her disadvantage, for nearly two hours. Upon the whole the Modeste has proved that she has stability and go in her, and that length will give stability ; our draft is 12 f e et 3 i nc h es , a nd 12 feet 10 inches aft ; Lily's is at least 2 feet more. If we did not bury the Lily, as I before said we should, at all events we sickened her ; for neat day, although in sight all day, there was no further inclination shown to come up to the scratch." The Orestes, 18, was paid off on Thursday, when the officers gave their Command. r ( Holt), a parting dinner, at the Star and Garter. In justice to the host we should add, that nothing could be more elegant than the fete he provided on the occasion ; and the civility and attention of his servants excited unanimous commendation. The Madagascar, 46, Capt. Wallis will go out of dock next week ; she is to have a new main and rnizen mast. The Bellerophon is to have a new foremast. The officers and crew of her Majesty's ship Excellent have contributed one day's pay towards the fund for the erection of a monument to the memory of Nelson. The Earl Durham, Captain Cabel, arrived on Wednesday with Cowdri spars on hoard for the Government yards, shipped in the Hokianga River, on the west aide of New Zealand. These spars are of great lengths and diameter, and when the ship left, which was on the 29th of January, the Buffalo store ship was loading with similar timber on the east side of the island. Mr. and Mrs. Batt, with five children, came pas sengers in the Earl of Durham ; and Lieut. Macdonald, R. N., the contractor for this timber, was landed at Pernam buco, to come home by packet; she left Pernambuco on the 12th of March. Capt. C. J. Austen took command of the Bellerophon, 84, this morning; Captain S. Jackson, who vacates, will take charge of Pembroke Dock-yard immediately after the Queen's next drawing-room. Captain Sir Edward Choetham, C. 8., assumed the office of Captain Superintendent of Hasler Hospital and the Weovill V:ctualling Yard, on Thursday, vice Rear- Admiral Garret. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.— Lieut. John Skynner (1802), to the rank of Commander; Captain P. W. P. Wallis to the Madagascar, vice Captain Sir John Peyton, superseded on account of ill health ; Lieut. Bartholomew James Sulivan to command, Mr. J. Archer, clerk-in-charge, and Mr. John Findlay, assistant•surgeon, to the Arrow ; Mr. Thomas Hancorn, second master and pilot, Mr. William Clayton, mate, Mr. J. M'llroy, assistant-surgeon, and Mr. Thomas Stevens, gunner, to the Termagant; Lieut. G. Har per, and Mr. Caesar C. Powell, mate, to the Malabar ; Lieut. G. C. Adams to the Madagascar, vice Riddell to the Sering a patam ; Mr. Robert Synge and the Hon- John S. Spencer, elates, to the Britannia ; Mr. Robert Maxwell, surgeon, Mr. G. Biddlecombc, master, and Mr. G. Pigot, mate, to the Talbot ; Mr. H. Craven, mate. to the Excellent ; Mr. J. Gallow, second master. and Mr. F. Slight, assistant-surgeon, to the Madagascar, the latter, vice Knox, to the Edinburgh ; Mr. W. Peel, Vol. first class, to the Princess Charlotte. ROYAL MARINES.-Captain Tinklar, of this division, is or dered to join the battalion in Spain. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, APRIL 21.—The packet Briseis, Lieut. Dow ney, which sailed from Falmouth for Halifax, with the mails of January last, and due on the 10th ult., not having been heard of since her departure, fears are entertained for her safety, especially as the Pique frigate, which sailed from Cork 23d of January, and seventeen days after the packet left Falmouth, arrived at Halifax, on sth March, up to which time the Briseis had not appeared. The only hope is that through bad weather she got disabled, and was obliged to run to the southward, and if so, some considerable time may yet elapse before the suspence is removed. The Penguin, having on board Mr. Walker, Assistant Mas ter Attendant, and a party of riggers and seamen, arrived on Wednesday from Pembroke. She came into harbour the fol lowing day. Her dimensions are:—Length of keel for ton nage, 93 feet : extreme breadth, 30 feet Si inches ; depth of hold, 14 feet 8 inches ; burthen, old measurement, 360--new mode, 237 tons. We understand that she is to be fitted for the Falmouth Packet Station. The Tortoise lighter, with Mr. Walker and a party of rig gers and seamen, will sail on Sunday for Pembroke, to bring the Grecian packet to this port, which will be launched on Tuesday next. The Ranger, Lieutenant Turner, was paid off on Thursday. The Devon lighter sailed on Thursday for Portsmouth and Woolwich, whence she will proceed to the North coast of Spain with Ordnance stores. The steam-vessel Tartarus, Lieutenant Smith, sailed on Friday for Jamaica. She relieves the Carron steamer, in con veying the mails from Jamaica to Barbadoes. The Braganza, steamer, Macleod, arrived at Falmouth, from London on Saturday. She bad scarcely anchored, when a boatman was observed by some Custom-house Officers to remove from her a bale of tobacco. Two of them were im mediately sent by the indefatigable Tide-Surveyor, Mr..Dob son, to take the man into custody, with the smuggled article, and his boat ; the man, called Pascoe, was sent to prison to abide the decision of the Board of Customs. A further sei zure was made on board the steamer on Sunday of 2101bs The steamor proceeded on Monday, for Vigo, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Liverpool Chronicle.) THE COTTON TRADE, MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EYENINCL— The trade in yarn and goods this week has been as gloomy as can well be ; and both spinners and manufacturers have again, though very unwillingly, submitted to a further reduction, and yet without being able to effect other than mere retail sales. Since the panic of 1836, things have not been in so unsatisfac tory a state. Yarns are lower in proportion than goods, ,Inch fact may be known from the circumstance of warps, forties so soiled, having been sold as low as 11d. per lb. THE WOOLLEN TRADE, LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The like dul ness pervades this Market which it has been our unpleasant duty to report now for some weeks past. The absence of nearly all erders from America, and the last reports from that quarter not being very favourable as to the prices obtained for goods sent at the very lowest prices known in this Market, has thrown an additional gloom over thin g s for the present. ROCHDALE F LANNEL MARKET, MO NDAY.—Things are in a very poor way in this market, little deing indeed at still fur ther reduced prices. This dulness is attributed to there being so few foreign orders on hand, and that this is likely to be the for some time to come adds to the gloom. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—Contrary to the anticipations of the most sanguine, and in the face of unusual depressions in the neighbouring mar k ets , t h e manu f acturers to -d a y experienced a very ex ce ll ent d eman d f or most ki n d s o f goo d s . It gives us pleasure also t o acid, that in naany cases a decidedimprove ment in price s t oo k pl ace . Al t h oug h li tt l e i s d o ing in wool, ienced prices are understood to be rather firmer. HUDDERSFIELD,TUESDAY.—The inquiries for plain goods are become ver y li m i te d i n d ee d , an d l ess b us i ne ss again done to-day in them th an f or some t i me past . Some fancy articles are in good request, and for cotton backed. For buckskins there is also a f a i r de man d, b ut no a d vanc e in prices. BRADFORD, T HURSDAY .—Th e a b senc e of information as to the probable demand for piece goods for the United States, the same dullness and inactivity which we had a right to re port last week still continues, and such parties as arc now makirg goods from yarn at the late high rates are, one and all, playing a losing game. All parties now seem to think that there is nothing which can retrieve us from the unusually depressed state of trade, which has pervaded this market for some time past. Y arns .—W e h ave not hi ng very particu l ar to notice in the yarn market this week, except a slight and but a slight increase in s a l e s, b u t qu i te i na d equate to operate on prices in the smallest degree. The pri ces are un d erstoo d not to be paying ones, andit is now in contemplation, by some extensive houses, to run short time by way of relief. Wool.--There has been a very limited inquiry for wools of all descriptions, and this has en a bl e d t h e spinners to buy on r a ther easier terms. It is understood, however, that the stocks in staplers' hands are by no means large, and that any favour, able turn in the trade would at once influence prices. The East still abounds with Story-tellers, as it did in the days of tl-e Odyssey. Mr. Quin's new romance of " Nourmahal" is supposed to be recited by a person of this amusing profession. The author is thus enabled to expatiate freely through the whole world of fancy, and to make ample use of the wondrous traditions so popular amongst ail classes in those regions of the Sun. The result is that he has pro duced one of the most interesting fict;ons of recent time. It is embellished by all the graces of style ; and it is touched now and then by a tone of philosophy which adds greatly to its im pressive character. The forthcoming " Recollections of the Duke of Vicenza" will, no doubt, excite an unusual degree of interest. In addition to a vast fund of novel and amusing detail relating to the Court and reign of Napoleon, they contain, we are in formed, numerous important disclosures not hithertoqutoeurrcyheadt upon in any of the memoirs of the time. It will be recoll eete d that Caulincourt held the appointment of Grand E the Imperial Court of France; and no individual enjoyed in a higher degree the confidence and friendship of Napoleon. The Duke was also officially connected with the Government, and was employed by Napoleon on several important diplomatic missions. He was appointed Ambassador to St. Petersburgh in .1807 ; and his accomplished mind and elegant manners rendered him a distinguished favourite of the Emperor Ale xander and other members of the Imperial family of Russia. His descriptions of scenes and characters at the Court of St. Petersburgh will, doubtless, be replete with interest and novelty. On Friday afternoon, Elizabeth Mortlake, a respec table elderly female living in Goodge-street, Tottenham court-road, was sitting in her apartment, when her clothes caught fire, and she was burnt in so shocking a manner, that her life is despaired of. COUI?7' OF QUEEN'S BENCHi APRIL, 2 DAY V. SEALS. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS moved for a rule to show cause trey the verdict given for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, of ►: fit* trial granted. The cause was tried at Warwick, when it appeared that thtl drfead• ant was a carter, and he had been employed by the surveyor of the roads of .t portion of the county to cart some stones to a p.:rt of a public road, and to put them down there, it being the intention of the surveyor to have them svread, for the purpose of mending the road. The defendant did cart the stones, and left tlicm by the side of the read. On the night of the 3(1 of November the plaintiff, in driving by that part of the read in his gig, came against one of the heaps of stones, their being no light set near them, and his gig was overturned and hi►n 'elf injured. He thereupon brought an action against the de fendant, and the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The Learned Sergeant submitted that this verdict could not be supported, as the defendant wan not answerable for the stones having been left in a heap on the road for some days.—Rule granted. BAIL COURT. • Mr. CLARK SON applied to his Lordship to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus to bring into that Court a young Mao named Shaw, who was at ;;resent confined in Newgate prison, on two charges of embezzlement. The affidavits on which the ap plication was grounded stated that the accused had been a clerk in a solicitor's office in the Temple; that a short time since be was prevented from attending to the business of the office in consequence of his having been arrested for debt ; and that when he subsequently returned, and offered to resume his duties, the solicitor refused to allow him to do so, and charged him IN ith having embezzled certain sums of money received by him on their account. The object of the present application was that the prisoner might be admi.ted to bail in such an amount of recognizances as the Court might here after direct. Mr. JUSTICE WILLIAMS granted the application. BLENKINSOP V. ORPWOOD. Mr. THESIGER stated that this action was brought to recover compensation in damages for certain slanderous words spoken by the defendant of arid concerning the plaintiff. The plain tiff and defendant were distantly related by marriage ; the plaintiff having married the daughter of a Mrs. Holder, who resided at Sevenoaks in Kent, and who was the grandmother of the defendant. Mrs. Holder was for some time previous to her death subject to occasional fits of insanity, and had at one period been the inmate of a lunatic asylum. In May, 1833, she was found drowned in a pond, and there were some marks of violence about her person, but which it was proved were occasioned by her falling against a post in the pond. A cco ner's inquest was held on the body, who, after the examina tion of several witnesses, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." Mrs. Holder left a considerable property among her relatives, but the defendant was dissatisfied with the man ner in which she bequeathed it, and the consequence was a law suit between the plaintiff and defendant. In June, 1837, the plaintiff's wife died, leaving two children, a boy and a girl, by a former hu,band, she being a widow at the time the plaintiff married h er . Sh ortly after the death of his wife, plaintiff called on the defendant and requested he would pro. cure the admission of the boy into the Somers' Town Charity school. He (defendant), said that he would not do so, and. told the plaintiff that he had been the destruction of his (defendant's) family, adding the words which formed the ground of the present action, namely, " You drowned my grandmother, and robbed her of her property. You plundered my brothers and my sister. You know you robbed the house of the property that was in it." A Miss Pitman, who had accompanied plaintiff in his visit to defen dant's house, asked him if what he stated was true, and he re plied that in his opinion it was. The plaintiff subsequently called on the defendant to retract the abominable expressions he had used, and the defendant having refused to do so, the only course left to the plaintiff was to seek redress for the injury he had sustained at the hands of a jury of his countrymen. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS summed up the evidence. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,. damages 40s. PREROGATIVE COURT, APRIL 21. IN THE GOODS Or LADY MARY MUSGRATE. Application was made to the Court in this case to grant its probate to a copy of the will of the late Lady Mary Musgrave, who died on the 11th of June, 1837, possessed of personal property to the amount of 45,0001. or 50,0001. The deceased made a will, which was dated " 14th September, 1829," and inclosed it in an envelope which bore the date of the 15th of September, the next day. This the deceased deposited at her hankers, Messrs. Wright, Selby, and Co., Honrictta•street, and a copy was made of this will, for which, in consequence of the destruction of the original instrument, probate was now sought. The testatrix subsequently made a codicil, in which she referred to the original will as bearing date " 15th Sep tember," and this codicil she also deposited in the hands of her bankers. On her death Sir George Musgrave called at her bankers, for the purpose of ascertaining whether any in structions v,ith regard to the funeral had been left by the de ceased in her will ; and saw two papers, one of which he (imagining it to be a duplicate of the other) tore up. This paper destroyed by Sir George, however, turned out to be the original will of the testatrix. The only question for the consideration of the Court was, whether all the circumstances had been fully and sufficiently explained in the affidavits. The COCRT granted probate to the copy of the will. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEB ONE. John Maguire, an athletic Irishman, who has been several times before the magistrates for desperate assaults, was charged with robbery, and assisulting two policemen. The prisoner pleaded intoxication. He was fully committed to take his trial at the Criminal Court. UION-HALL. Two fashionably dressed young men, who gave their names William Primate, of Crawford cottage, Albany-road, and Henry Davis, Walworth Villa, Camberwell, were charged with riotous conduct and breaking- down some palings in front of a house at Camberwell. They were fined 11. each for the damage, and ordered to Snd securities for their good behaviour for six months. James Armstrong and Sarah Nixon were finally examined on a charge of robbing Mr. Williams, a linen-draper, and Mary Pratt, a dress-maker, on the charge of receiving a por tion of the property. The three were fully committed for trial. BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—The Ordi nary Meeting was held Friday evening, Dr. M'lntyre, F. L. S., in the chair. The Secrets!) , announced donations of books and plants. Some Members were elected, and others pro posed. Twenty Foreign Members, who had been recommended by the Council, were elected"; after which the Secretary read a paper f rom M r. Wall i s, C orrespon di ng Member of the So ciety, on the genus Itlysotis. There are but few of our British genera that have received so many additions of late years as has the genus Mr/solis. Linnaeus, in his great work on Natu ral History, has described but two species, and includes under them one or two varieties, which have since been established as species. Those which he has described are 3'tyosotis pa lustris and Myosotis arvensis; these, then, may be taken as t) pes of the genus, the other species possessing a claim to that name only from some slight variations in their respective characters. The paper went on to describe the observations made by Mr. Wallis on this interesting genus, and a discus sion having ensued between the Chairman, Dr. Bossy, Mr. G. E. Denncs, and other Members, the meeting adjourned until May 4. WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL SCHOOL OF INIEDI mx.—The annual distribution of. Prizes at this School took place on Thursday, Mr. North in the Chair. The following were the successful conwetitors : ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Mr. Wilkins; 2d. Mr. Thornton. PRACTICAL ANATOSIY.—ht. Mr. Thornton; 2d. Mr. Wilkins ; 3d. Mr. Parker. SURGERY.—Ist. Mr. Thornton ; 2d. Mr. Wilkins; 3d Mr. Parker. PRACTICE or IMEnicINE.—Mr. Parker. MATERIA MEDICA.—Mr. Silk. CIIEMISTRT.—Iet. Mr. Ricketts; 2d. Mr. Greenup. MIDWIFERY.--ht. Mr. Parker; 2d. Mr. Woolcot. LIVERPOOL, SA TuRDAY.--Williani Hill paid the last penalty of the law this morning, at eight o'clock, for the violAtion and murder of Grace Avery, at Warrington. The arrival of the trains last night with ou t a repr i eve took away from all who felt any interest in his fate the last hope of avert ing it. Just before the execution a very painful incident oc curred. some person left a letter directed to the Rev. Chaplain, and doubly seemed with seals, at the door of the prison, directing it to be immediately delivered. It was passed with all possible speed, and reached the spot just in the middle of the burial service, and a general impression was immedi ately created that it was a reprieve. The Clergyman quitted the side of the criminal to open it ; but the hope was speedily terminated, on discovering it to be merely a foolish anonymous letter, thus inflicting much painful suspense at the last awful moment. The conduct of Hill, we are informed, since his condemnation has been most contrite and becoming. No au thentic account has yet been published of his disclosures to his spiritual adviser, but we learn on good authority that he denied, from first to last, any intention to murder, or that he actually strangled the unfortunate woman. Ile was not com municative, and his intellect appeared to be naturally dull, and little information was to be gained from him, but there was strong reason to believe that, under the influence of liquor, he had actually lost all distinct recollection of the circumstances of the fatal night. The general feeling, we believe, is, that ho was innocent of one, if not of both, of the crimes for which he suffered. A mother, brother, and sister attended him in the last hours of his existence. --- A few days ago, a boy, ten years old, was gathering sticks in a wood near Sauqueville, in the Seine Inferieure, when he observed a she wolf carry one of her cubs in her mouth into some bushes, and hide it. As soon as the animal had departed, the boy went and took the cub, but the mother heard him, and returned upon him. The bold boy, instead of being intimidated, made a stand, and drew his knife, which he flourished in the eyes of his assailant, who either from fear, or ; which is snore probable, from care of her remaining young ones, retreated, and suffered her antagonist to carry off his prize. For this trait oficourage the Mayor of the Commune has given him a reward of 30f, PRICES Oki uANALS,DOCK STOCKS, , U,,SLJRANCE COMPANIES,&c.&c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRP. 20. Niumbet Dividend Price tif pe't CANAL S. per Shares. Annufa. i'aid. I•Ar6 4: 4 .'0 7 pet cent. Ashton anti (Ste' ivm,,..Average 97/. ii.ls. sh. Mb I,er2 41. Ashby-cle-.lv-Zonch .......ialverage 11f.'.81 - 1. 65 , 1,20 ....,„ Bmirg.tok - si a ,lll...N. 5 1,005 .51. Breelinock ,irid Abergavenny 150 ;!'. :61 3, 1 10 0 lai6ol 91 61. (irmilighan), 1-16th share ........8-1 , . & 711. 2c2j 1 000 -14, Ilitto and L'verpool Juliet.. 130/. sh. 10e pd 241 600 2/. ' Bring venter and Taunton ....11.W, sh. all pd 64 400 44 Chelmer and !PAO:water IOW. O. 102 , 51 1 ) 40!. C wentry . .545 ..,i - ; C:oydon 4 Average 31/.23.10d. sh. :3 2,060,1 41. lol,„ Vutlley 10(2. sh. 63 6eo 14:. lirerby- •-- - ...Pl*. 1 001. ,h . 1:35 90,000 4 per cent. Oariuhe and MaYile ~,. ~,,, ... 41/. 13s. 4d .pd 331,1 34)74 V. Ellccmere and Chattel -Average 133/. sh. 77 031 404? f Erewaqh • • 10 0 1 en, 700 ,1,297 /4/. Perth nd Clyde Average 44-101.X5. ch. 11 , ;11 -1,600 12/. af al - i AO/oton . 9,! , 491 I/. Grand Onion •••. li 01.. h 25 1,500 Grand Surrey 1 00 - 40/. 41. per rent. Div ° (optional) Loan „,.14.21 70 3,096 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. 9d. Glzmignnshirc, Average cost 1/2/. I3s. 4:i 2se 749 101. Grantham 15(1.81, 202 ‘433 .4. . 9/. Os Iludderefi•-ld Average 571. 6s. 1 - 3. sh. 3'; l'"' .c..,. ... Kensington 100 sh all pd. 10 2 5,329 11. 11. Kennet i nd Avon, Average 391. 181. Ittel.sh 251 2,8971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/.5h. 610 '.455 13/. Leicester ..‘, l4O/. sh 225 1 . 8 97 4/. Os. Leicester arn4 NCiftharnpton... A ver 431. ins. 91 2.400 101, Monmouthshire .. ~,,,,,, ~,,,,h,...- 1 0 1Y.sh. 201 150 101, Mutton Mowbray ,,,,.1ea/. eh. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell ,lOO/. oh. 565 3.000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield 1004 sh. /10 pd. 52 247 171. Neath 1,780 30t. Oxford lOOl. sh. 630 2,100 51. Peak Foiest A vei.ge about 78/, sh, 104 1,118 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. 16s. Bd. sh. .16 5,669 01. per cent. Rochdale . Average 135/. sh. 111 500 8!. Shropshire - --, /'251. sh. 138 800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal - - 150/. sh. 1511 30 0 04 41 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock . ~...121 10;. sh. 111 700 401, Ohaffbrd and Worcester . - - 140/.5h. 710 500 9!. Shfe'eebury ,.:.1251. sh. VO 300 91. 31tollfbfidge 3,647 2/. Os. Stratford-on-Mioh ~,Average 79!. 95. bd. sh. 50 533 151. Swansea lOOl. sh. %AO 3,76'2 I/. 15s. Severn and %'lye and Rail Way ...Av 35!. sh. 35 2,6015 n. 321. Ws. Trent and Mersey, I share 1°0!, sh. 580 8.149 • Thames ..nd Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. 9d. 111, 2 •,000sh.1 ~, I,oooish. j `"" Warwick aid Birmingham . i 001. s h 2135 90 lit. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. - 200 6,000 41.05. Worcest,r and Birmingham...A v. 762,85. sh. 71) 5,000 255. Wilts an., Becks .. Average 67/. 10s: Bd. sh. 22 800 31, Wyrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 •ro Wisbeach 905 1.. Wey and Arun llO/.5h. 29.1 DOCKS. t i :o6 6° s ° l t h }3p. c Commercial - , 00/.sh. 56 • 498,66714 6 per et. East India Stock 112 5,238,31014 sCs.p.ct. London Stock s7l Ditto Bonds 99 . 1,380,0001. 41/. p. ct. West India 2.:'.09 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,3241. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts . ll3 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 100 500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds or 10 years ION 2.500 ..... Deptford I'ier '2Ol. sh. '2Ol. pd 11 BRIDGES. . 1,600 Ifs. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 224 7,231 Southwark, Old As' 03/. 2s. Bd. sh. 2 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. 6O/. pd 19 5,000 164 t. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 174 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds llB 5,848 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 20 AS , CRANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 80 50,000 S 5 per cent.] Alliance, British & Foreign 100/. sh. 101/. pd 130 /. and 15s. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. Si. pd 01 14,000 1/. per sh. Atlas 1,200 Ish. Si. Birmingham Fire 20,000 4! percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 411 12,000 6!. per cent. British Commercial 501. sh. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. percent. Clerical, Medi._ al,&c. Life, ICOI. eh, 2110 a pd 4 4,000 21 :Os County 1001. oh. 10!. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. oh. 5/. pd 51 209 f 5 per cent. am 301 b j Economic Lite lOOO/. sh. 2501. pd 375 2,271 225. per cent. European Li... , "01. sh. till pd 22 60,000 2s. Ditto, New 2O/. oh. 21. pd If 1,000,0061. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 1511 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 341 10,000 6s. ea. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 54 2,400 51. 7s. fid. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 127 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite.. lOW. sh. 101. pd 101 13,456 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine.... 100/. sh. 81. p 4 22 2,020 31 108 Kent Fire 50/, eh. all pd 92 • Si. Ditto Life 79 10, 0 00 I6s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 251 5,000 les. London, Fire 251. sh. 171. 10a. pd lo 3,900 10e. London, Ship 25i. sh. 121. 10s. pd 16 1,00,00111. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. oh. 30,01'0 51. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. 2/. pd 2/ fls 041 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 17s Od 0.500 11. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd 64 609,2201 5/. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock.., 225 6,000 5 per cent. Un ivers it y L i f e l OO/. s h . 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd JOINT STOCK BANKS 25,000 0 percent. Agric. and Cvmm. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 14 5,000 Australa , da 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 70/ 10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bit iningham 5ll. sh. 10/. pd 13 41,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. eh. 51. pd 161 0,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 20/. pd 2;4 .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100/. sh. 104 pd 90 25,0(6) Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 23 ...... ... 50,000 71 per cent Manchester and Liverpool} 1001. sh. 151 pd 191 Discount 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1001. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. 251. pd 42 20, , 00 National Bank of Ireland -5 0 /. sh 171/. pd 161 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOW. sh. 351. pd 34 10,000 ... ..... Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 115 e 6d Bath 2Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pa 211 C5/.per cent" 5,000 t.„,„ ~ i. 5 . 3 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 19 d 221 928 5110. Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 at tog Brighton 2Ol. sh. 1 I 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 181. pd 9 2,471 44 per cent. Briguton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOOl. 624!. pa 90 1,000 101. City of Loudon lOO/. sh. all pd 190 1,000 6/. Ditto, New 11,000 4/. 10.. Equitable .... 50/. pd 30/ 10,000 21, per cent. Imperial 800 57 per cent. Isle 4Thailet 251. sh. 201. pd 20 2,350 61. per cent. Independent V/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix .... 50/. oh. 391. pd 211 1,000 4/. per cent. RatclifF 100/. sh. 801. pa 58 4,000 South Metropolitan 5 l l/. sh. 19/. pd 17 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 291 240 5/. per cent. W a r w i c k 501 . s h . 50 * 400 51. per cent Waltefleld 12,000 31. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5ll. oh. 101. pd 94 860 Yarmouth - 20/. sh. 18!. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Ds. Birmingham 251. sh. 251 pd 21, 4,434 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 149 5,500 21 103 flr.ind Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. 54 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 43 372 101. Liverpool liciotle 2201. sh. 3.6 1,500 21 108 New River London Bridge WaterAnnui ties 59i 6,486 1/ 153 Manchester and Salford „100/. sh. 54 1,000 4 per cent. South London 100/. sh. 87 8,294 41. Went Middlesex ....Average 031. 12s. 9d. sh. 94i 1,360 11 143 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 3Ol. pd 27 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Oi 15,1110 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 10 pd 8 660 Calcutta and Saugur - 50/. sh. 2!. pd Oi 7,500 ... ..... Cheltenham and G. Western...! 001. sh. 711 4 3,000 Clarence lOOl. sh. 100/. pd 45 12,000 8,000 ... ...... Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 1-1 60,003 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 51. pd 5 Grand Junction 100!. sh. 95/. pi 181 Great North of England l3/, pd 91 5,000 Great Western lOOl. sh. 651. pd 95 2,000 Ilartlepool 100/. eh. 1001 pc! Inn 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh i 0 4 ,d lj 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd Is 2,100 3!. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 41 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 751 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Mancliester...lo(/.ah. 100/. pd /95 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '2sl. pd 61 36,000 London and Bright.9.l 5Ol. sh. 84 pd 101 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh 3! pd 7 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sls. 'At pd i 6; `25,000 ......... London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 9dl. pd 170 Ditto Quarter Shares 51. pd 30 20,000 ...... ... London and Southampton '.O/. sh. 5'J/. pd 47 ......... Ditto ditto New 7,000 ... ...... London and Croyd o n T run k 20/ . s h . 201 . p d 1 7* 7,000 Ditto Scrip 14/ . s h . 5/. p d 9 12,000 London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5!. pd 2 15,000 Manchester and Birmiugham 70/.sh. 71. pd 10 North Midland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 42 Northe'n and Eastern lOO/. sh. 8/. pd 5 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3-1. pd 36 28,000 South Eastern and Dover . 71. pd 6 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 9,000 Tha.t.es Haven 5Ol. sh 2!. 10s. pd 3 1,400 Westminster And Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pit 01 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd 13 MINES. 8,000 Albion Copper 5/. sh. 2j/. pd 12 4,000 1!. Si. Alten 151. eh. 121. lOs pd 121 0,000 Anglo Mexican, iss. 5!. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 3 .... Ditto Subscription 05!. pa 4 2,000 I , `l, Bolanos 10,000 11. les Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 20/. pd 221 6,0: 1 0 Macaubas trc Cocaes United 2sl.sh. 21. pd 7 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. sh. 91. pd 51 10,000 llolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 20/. pd S 10,000 ...-.... Ditto Scrip... JO!. sh. 10/. pd 31 2.0,000 British Iron 5Ol. sh. 50/ pd 15j 6,000 ...... ... British Copper 5/. sh. 41/. pd ,I, Cata Branca 641. pd HI Candonga 7il. pd 7 10,000 11 Copiapo 2O l. s h 12 41 pd 64 8,500 ... Columinan, iss. 5!. pm. 2,850 31. English 20,000 General Mining Association...2o/. s h . 151 pd 8 6,155 Mexican Company 100!. sh. 55h/. pd 2 1,000 Polbcrou Consols. lOl. s h 8 /. pd 5f 500 Real del Monte, Unregistered l4 Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....10/. sh. all pd 21 Dit,t. Scrip 3f • Ditto New Scrip 2f West Cork 504 sh. 50/. pd 38 1 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. ,001) London, with Bronze Tick et . 1 . 1 . ;0 . .... . . s 7 h s . g a s i . l sh, 2,i 2 1 ,500 London University 700 Russell 2, gs. Sh. 9 King' College ... . .......... . .......... 1001. p d MISCELLANEOUS ..... ° 0,000 15,, Australian Agrieult ura l ....loo/. sh 214/. pd 44 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company... (21/ 10,000 .pd 12 el/ per cent. Canada Company ............... lOU/. sh. 281. !xi 30' 200, 0 0 0 5/, p e r cent. Upper Canada Loan ................... City Bonds, 4 per cent ............... .... 15,000 m s. General Steam Navigation ...151. 6i 1 . 13/. pd 224 101. per cent. }I lui s 0 n z 't ut 01 ci : rn a wc :: cismk S l plL o ea c: n k inytd . o . o .. c . m. .. o .. 6m.....l..)2.a.tiy. ... ,it.l . ...,.. 11g0 2,000 IL 8,000 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. 13.3 2,62351. per cent. Daitto, Tunnel N ew ; . ............................1 . .... pd 400Thamese .......... ........ pl 9 6 10, 0 ea, Van Die. ner.'s Land ............ 1001. ah. 171. a n d , 00 12 --_-___ 30,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. MARCH 24, 1838. BANKS. 1,500,00e4 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotl and ...... 83/ 6s Bd. sh. all pd 1921. 2,000,0j0i. si p. ct. Royal of Scotland ............... 100/. oh. all pd - 160/. 500.00 0/. Bp. ct. British Linen C ompany 1001. sh. all pd 'IV/. ?_ . „,,,, ,000 / . 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1801. 5.000,0(10'. s 0. ct. National ...................... -100/. sh. 5 01.1 pd IT. , 000 . 0001 . 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union . . ... . 250/. sh. 0/. pd 71. i' ,000 : 0 0y, 4p. ct. NVestern of Scotland 2001, sh 30/. pd 42/. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0000. 01p. ct. Scottish Union 201. oh. 1/, pd 26s -,500 (51 p. et. Hercules ... . ..... .. ... . ..... 100/. sh. 10/. pd 131 iss. 1 00,0 00 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of • ScotTand ....10/. sh. all pd 815 s 50.00 0 6p. ct. North British 2001. all. 10/. pd 161. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 10i. pd INI (Is ,0 00 6p. ct. Edinburgh Lif e 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14118 s 100,000` 31 p. ct. West et Scotland lO/. pd 710 a ~.: MISCELLANEOUS '" 4,810 ''' n • and Was. Un. Cana1...50/, oh, all pd 2•'l. Ditto Allocated 06/. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 25/. sh, all pd 364 50/. sh 38/. pd 45/ C sh it o rr t o ts n l l r r o o n n t t o :r na p e a r n y y 250/. oh. all pd 441. 4,500 10 per cont. Edinb urg h Coal Gas 2r0,000/sh 1 3 5 p p e e r r c c e e n n t t . . 251 eh, all pd 66/, E dinburgh & Leith Glass ....201. sh. 161. pd Si. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow (ias 25/ sh. all pd 131/ 750 71 per cent. Leith C oal Gas 201. sh. all pd 45/. 1,206 Edinburgh and l)alkeith Ral'way...sol. sh 3.51. 9,000 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Couipany, ',sf. oh. W. Pd 101. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of Friday Evening.) SUGAR.—The Market for West India Aluscoyades continues to present a very dull appearance, and prices since our last have receded is. for both brown and yellow descriptions. This afternoon importers refused to submit to any further re. ductiott, but the demand was again very limited for both the scale and ran. The purchases privately for the week arc only 000 bhds. and trs. The Refined Market has assumed a very quiet appearance , end prices are not so firm as they have been of late; the limited purchases made in grocery descriptions since our last have been at a reduction on previous rates of Is., Lumps passing the standard having been sold at 765. to 765. 6d., and rather wider at 755. Mauntrics.—The demand has been confined to the public sales of 9,684 bags, which went heavily, and about 2,000 bags were bought iz, the remainder sold at a reduction on former rates of 2s. a 2s 6d. on brown, and Is. a Is. 6d. on yellow descriptions. East. INDlA. —Bengal has again been affected by the dul ncss which has pervaded other descriptions admissible for home consumption; mid white selling at 61s. a 625., good 635., fine 645., damps 60s. a 62.; , and washed 58s. a 60s. COFFEE.—In East India descriptions with certificate, there has been less business doing. Ceylon has been taken very sparingly by the grocers, and rather lower prices have been accepted, good ord. quality selling at 78s. to 795. In Mocha the operations have been trivial by private treaty, and none hat been offered at auction ; but in prices there is no variation for other sorts there are no orders here for shipping. Cocon.—For British Plantation there has been no demand , and 140 bags Trinidad at auction were withdrawn for want of hp - As. In foreign nothing further has been done. TEA.—At the public sales there has been a good demand for Bohea this week, and rather higher prices were obtained, Canton selling at Is. .sid. a Is. 54d., Fokien at Is. lod. Is. 10}d., but the trade have again purchased sparingly of all other descriptions. INntoo.--:.Thc public sales of 6,425 chests East India com menced on Wednesday., It was evident from the beginning of the sale that there was a want of orders for home consumption , the ordinary and low sorts were therefore comparatively ne glected, and were chiefly bought in at 6d. to 9d. under the prices of the last sale. This afternoon the buyers purchased less freely ; prices receded 2d. per ii., snaking the reduction on the January rates 6d. to 9d. on the a verage for all/descriptions. Up to this evening 2,356 chests pasi•ed th e sale, of which 730 have been bou g ht i n an d withdrawn, and the remainder sold. SPICES. -There has been an improved demand for Black Pepper. White is also in better request, 45 bags at auction went at 10Id. for ord., and Is. Bd. to Is. 9d. for mid. quality. Mace is still neglected, but not offered on easier terms ; 10 casks Amboyna at auction were bought in, fine seconds at dst thi. The transactions privately in Pimento have been limited. In Cassia Linea the operations have been trivial. East and West India Ginger are held for late quotations. In Nutmegs and Cloves there has been little passing. Rret.-East India has supported previous prices, good middling bold white Bengal at 13s. 6d. to 14 5 ., middling rather broken 13s. to 13s. 6d., Madras good 11s. a I Is. 6d. SALTPETRE.-The market for Rough continues in a very dull state, and prices are drooping, at a reduction on previous rates of 6d. to Is. ; refraction 4 to 2 per cent. good strong quality went at 235. to 245., refraction 112. at 225. to 225. 6d• OILS.-For Southern there has been a very good demand , at an advance on previous rates of 10s., fine quality went at 291. ss. to 291. 103., good 281. 10s. to 291. ; pale Seal at 311. 15s. to 321. ss. straw 29/. 155., yellow 28/. 105., brown 29/. Sperm is held for 82/. In Linseed the price has ad" vanced to 27/. In Rape there has again been little domgr and pale is offered at 37/. In Palm there has been nothing stirring, and the prices nominal at 451. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Thursday an inquest was held in Newgate on the body Of Peter Holding, aged thirty-seven, a convict, who died to prison of a broken heart. Mr. M'Murdo, surgeon to the prison , deposed that the deceased came under his notice early in t he present month. He was in a ver y l ow d e p resse d state of mind, hut suffering from no disease. Witness offered to re move him into the infirmary, which he ref u sed, o n account 01 several of the inmates being seriously indisposed with the pre vailing fever. On witness putting questions t o him as to his feelings he placed his hand on his heart and said, ,‘ It is he re I feel the pain ; lam sure I shall never rally." Subse quently the unfortunate man was tried, convicted, and sen tences) to seven years' transportation. After his sentence no became rapidly worse • and, notwithstanding witness's atten tion, he died on Tuesday. CORONER — Have you been able to ascertain the cause of his death ? Witness—l am of opinion that his death was the re' sult of mental depression, popularly termed a broken h earf and not of any disease of organic powers. w hat Juror—Allow me to ask you, Sir, as a medical man , the term broken heart" implies ? Witness—Such docs l exist in the human species ; th e he ar ts of animals frequently burst from over exertion. I sh ou ld be sor,-v to aPP I Y d, , term broken heart as a surgeon ; it is a malady of the Inihner and not of the body. 1 have known in s tances in this and o ther prisons where culprits died from acute mental depressioil with out the presence of any disease whatever. A Juror (addressing the Governor) wished to knew bor . long the deceased had been in the prison? Mr. Cope re plied, three weeks only. He was tried and convicted at the last sittings of the Central Criminal Court for stealing a quantity of lead from his employer. He (Mr. Cope) had un derstood that the unfortunate man at one period was a brick layer and builder in a good way of business. His condition at the time of his commitment to prison was most pitiable, from mental depression. After his conviction he became rapidly worse, until his death. He (deceased) was evidently a ro an of strong feelings. Sir Moses Montefiore (sheriff) had no doubt, had the de ceased been acquitted of the offence he was charged with that he would have been then alive. When he (deceased) came to the prison he was a fine, healthy-looking man. Mr. Cope, the Governor, said that the deceased had been supplied with every nourishment. About an hour before his dissolution he drank a pint of beef tea.—The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death." Another inquest was held bef o re M r . P a y ne , the City 7 Coroner, at the Newcastle Coffee-house, St. Mary-at- Eli" 1 on the body ofJane Parker, aged thirty-eight. The decease ° had for some months been in rather a poor state of health; On Monday last she went to Blackwell for the purpose of taking leave of a daughter who was on board a convict ships preparatory to her transportation for seven years to New South Wales, she having been covicted of stealing a watch from the person of a gentleman, on the night of the fire at the Royal Exchange. The parting greatly affected the poor woman , and on her way home she was heard to say that she should never get over it. A few hours afterwards she fell (low* dead, with scarcely a struggle. Verdict—" Died by th e visitation of God." DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS. Plated en Silver Steel Blades. Blades. Plain Ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen p a ir.. £3 3 6£B 1 8 0 , Carved ivory handles, silver fe rru le s , p e r doz en p a i r 3lf 6 1 0 ? 0 Plain pearl handles, silver fer ru l es , per do z en p a i r ... 44 0 11 0 Carved pearl handles, silver f erru l es , per d ozen p a i r 3 0 1 2 2 0 King's pattern or Queen' s p a tt ern , s il ver h an dl es ... 6ld g 14 14 T. COX' SAVORY, Working Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. . (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-strnet. ) N.B. A Pamphlet containing a list of the prices of Silyer Pate , l Plated Goods, Wat c h es , Cl oc k s , & c., may b e h a d grat i s, •r w i ll be forwarded i n answer t o a post - pa i d application. i BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., in Russell-square, the lady of Ceo. Pardue , M.D., of a son. --- At Honiton, Devon, on the 17th inst., the lady of Pearce Ne s ' bitt, M.D., of a daughter. On the 20th inst., in Guildford-street, Russell-square, the lady of / Thos. Croudace, Esq., of a son. On the 28th inst., the lady of J. D. Thomson, Esq., High Sheriff of Brecknockshire, of a son. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., at Greenwich, the Rev. Barwick J. Sain'' Rector of Alderton-cum-Grafton Regis, to Susan Louisa, third daughter of John Sutton, Esq. On the 19th inst., at Kensington, Clement Dale, Esq., of Ray mond-buildings, Gray's Inn, to Mdrion Christian Mo n t ag u, second daughte r o f th e l a t e Colonel J. W. Taylor, of the Hon. East India Company's Service. On the 19th inst., at St. Clement's Danes, Benjamin Heir Starey, Esq., of Newington.green, to Ann, eldest daughter of NY • Butterfield. Esq., of Norfolk-street, Strand. On the 19th inst., at St. George's Hanover-square, the Rev John Grant Lawford, of Aylesbury, Bucks, to Phcebe, third daugh ter of the late W. Dawson, Esq., of Turuham-green. On the 17th inst., at St. Mary the . Virgin, Oxford, Mr. Hewett , of Holywell-street, to Sarah Susan, third daughter of Mr. Ed" wards, of High-street in that city. At Louth, on the 17th inst., Thomas Shepherd, Esq., of Bever ley, to Elizabeth Maria, second daughter of the late T. B. Phillips , Esq., of Louth. DIED. At Standing Stone, near Wigton, Cumberland, on the 11th inst. Miss Lewthwaite, aged 72. On Saturday last, in Park-lane, Lady Emily Montague, Sister to the Duke of Manchester. On the 15th inst., in Brunswick-place, Old Kent-road, Mr. Samual Webb, aged 59. At Guildford, on the 19th inst., Emilia, wife of J. M. Meggisonr Esq., and eldest daughter of Sharon Turner, Esq. On the 19th inst., in London, aged 9, Edmund Vernon Good enough, second son of the Very Rev. the Dean of Wells. On the 19th inst., in Charterhouse-square, Charles Speakman , eldest son of C. Webb, Esq., of Oxford. On the 19th inst., in the City-road, Annie, wife of Mr. William son Lamplough, aged 27. On the 11th inst., at Greenwich, Isabella, widow of J. I3ollis, Esq., formerly of St. Petersburgh. On the 16th inst., in Duchess -street, Portland-placo, Ralph Lascelles, infant son of J. Marston, Esq. On the 14th inst., John Cheape, Esq., of Rossie, Fifeshire, in his 80th year. On the 13th inst., in Milton-street, Dorset-square, Mr. Henry John Crowley, aged 31. On the 18th inst., Thomas Needham, Esq., Cashier .f the Bang of England, aged 6'). On the 18th inst., in Beaumont -street, aged 4, Henry, youngest son of W. Theobald, Esq. On the 18th inst., Sarah, wife of Mr. G. Trickett, of Great Smith-street, Westminster, aged 30. On the 16th inst., aged 47, John Caleb Lowell, Esq., of the Paragon, Bl ac kh eat h . On the 17th inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Susan Yerraway, late of Carshalton, aged 80. On the 15th inst., at Tunbridge Wells, Georgina, second slaugh ter of Lieut.-Colonel Owen, aged four years and nine months. - - .unilun; Printed and Published b 111U1i. DO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, a t Th e S ue Offi ce , Se. 112, Strand, in the cowity of Middiesex.—Monday, April 23, 1838.